Joel 2:14 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁴ Who knows whether he will not turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, a cereal offering and a drink offering for the Lord, your God?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ Who knows but what He will turn, revoke your sentence [of evil], and leave a blessing behind Him [giving you the means with which to serve Him], even a cereal or meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord, your God?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ Who knoweth whether he will not turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal-offering and a drink-offering unto Jehovah your God?

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Who knows whether he will have a change of heart and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the LORD your God?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ Who knows if he might convert and forgive, and bequeath a blessing after him, a sacrifice and a libation to the Lord your God?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ Who knoweth but he will return, and forgive, and leave a blessing behind him, sacrifice and libation to the Lord your God?

Joel 2:14 Cross References

2 Samuel 12:22

He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’

2 Samuel 16:12

It may be that the Lord will look upon my affliction, and that the Lord will repay me with good for this cursing of me today.”

2 Kings 19:4

It may be that the Lord your God heard all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.”

Exodus 32:30

On the morrow Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

Isaiah 65:8

Thus says the Lord: “As the wine is found in the cluster, and they say, ‘Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,’ so I will do for my servants' sake, and not destroy them all.

Jeremiah 18:8

and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will repent of the evil that I intended to do to it.

Jeremiah 26:13

Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God, and the Lord will repent of the evil which he has pronounced against you.

Jeremiah 26:3

It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, that I may repent of the evil which I intend to do to them because of their evil doings.

Joel 1:13

Gird on sackcloth and lament, O priests, wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because cereal offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

Joel 1:16

Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Joel 1:9

The cereal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the Lord. The priests mourn, the ministers of the Lord.

Amos 5:15

Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Jonah 1:6

So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call upon your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we do not perish.”

Jonah 3:9

Who knows, God may yet repent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we perish not?”

Zephaniah 2:3

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who do his commands; seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the wrath of the Lord.

Haggai 2:19

Is the seed yet in the barn? Do the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree still yield nothing? From this day on I will bless you.”

2 Timothy 2:25

correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant that they will repent and come to know the truth,

Joshua 14:12

So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day; for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities: it may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall drive them out as the Lord said.”

1 Samuel 6:5

So you must make images of your tumors and images of your mice that ravage the land, and give glory to the God of Israel; perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you and your gods and your land.